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Patrick Carpenter

Jan 13, 2015

Vermillion said today that it has appointed Patrick Carpenter general manager of its CLIA laboratory business, Aspira Labs. Carpenter was previously vice president of operations at Miraca Life Sciences. Before that, he held positions at companies including Dianon Systems, VCA/Antech Diagnostics, and Quest Diagnostics.

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Sherry Buck

Waters has appointed Sherry Buck as senior vice president and CFO effective Jan. 9, 2017. Buck replaces Eugene Cassis, who will transition to a senior advisory role. Before coming to Waters, she served as CFO for Libbey. Prior to joining Libbey, Buck spent nearly 20 years at Whirlpool in a number of leadership roles, including CFO, global product and enterprise cost leadership, and vice president of US finance.

Dec 08, 2016

Don Hardison

IQuity has appointed Don Hardison to its board of directors. Hardison joins IQuity from Good Start Genetics where he served as president, CEO, and board member. He has previously held a number of executive and senior management positions at various companies, including LabCorp, Exact Sciences, and Quest Diagnostics. Additionally, Hardison has served on the board of directors for several private and public companies.

Dec 07, 2016

Sam Samad

Illumina has appointed Sam Samad as senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective Jan. 6, 2017. Marc Stapley, who had been serving as CFO and chief administrative officer for Illumina, will continue to serve as CAO. Samad joins Illumina from Cardinal Health, where he most recently served as senior vice president and corporate treasurer and was responsible for Cardinal Health's China business. Prior to that role, he was senior vice president and chief financial officer for the pharmaceutical segment and vice president of the healthcare supply chain services. Previously, he held finance roles at Eli Lilly and PepsiCo.

Dec 05, 2016

Anita Hauser, Pius Baschera

The Roche board of directors has proposed that Anita Hauser be elected to the board at its annual general meeting, scheduled for March 14, 2017. If elected, Hauser will replace Pius Baschera, a member of the Roche board since 2007, who will not stand for re-election. Hauser is managing director at Magenta Management. Prior to joining Magenta, she was country manager and director at EF Education First. She is also vice chairwoman of the board of directors of Bucher Industries and a member of the boards of Glatz and Amag Automobil und Motoren.

Dec 05, 2016

George Komatsoulis

CancerLinQ, a wholly-owned non-profit subsidiary of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), has tapped George Komatsoulis to serve as its first chief of bioinformatics.

Komatsoulis brings more than 20 years of experience in the fields of information technology and biomedical informatics to the role. Prior to joining the CancerLinQ team, he spent 12 years in senior positions at the National Institutes of Health. This includes serving as the deputy and interim director of the National Cancer Institute's Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, chief information officer at the NCI, and acting chief of the informatics resources branch at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. While at the NCI, he led the efforts to launch the Cancer Genomics Cloud pilots.

Komatsoulis holds a Ph.D in molecular biology and biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology and a B.S in microbiology from Cornell University.

Dec 02, 2016

Maria Chan

Personal Genome Diagnostics has appointed Maria Chan vice president of regulatory strategy. Chan will oversee all regulatory activities at PGDx and will help shape the company's strategy for moving products through regulatory processes. Chan previously served as director of the Division of Immunology & Hematology Devices at the Center for Devices & Radiological Health, in the US Food and Drug Administration's Office of In Vitro Diagnostics & Radiological Health. She also served as a scientific reviewer and team leader of immunology, genetics, and molecular diagnostic devices, and as associate division director for the immunology branch at the FDA. Prior to the FDA, Chan served in various positions at Children's National Health System, the George Washington University Medical Center, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dec 02, 2016

Daniel J. Warmenhoven

Theranos has appointed Daniel J. Warmenhoven to its board of directors, effective immediately. Warmenhoven has served in various positions with many companies in the technology industry, including as CEO of NetApp and as executive chairman of the NetApp board of directors. He has also served as chairman, president, and CEO of Network Equipment Technologies, and has held senior management positions at Hewlett-Packard and IBM. He is currently a director on the boards of Bechtel Group and Palo Alto Networks. Warmenhoven is replacing retiring director Riley P. Bechtel, who is stepping down because of health issues.

Theranos also announced that it will retire its Board of Counselors as part of an ongoing restructuring of its corporate advisory framework.

Dec 02, 2016

Hayden Jeffreys

ERBA Diagnostics has appointed Hayden Jeffreys as interim CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2017. The employment agreement of the company's current CEO Mohan Gopalkrishnan expires on Dec. 31. Jeffreys has served on ERBA's board of directors since May 31, and also serves as the commercial director for the molecular diagnostics division and as vice president of business development and strategy for ERBA Diagnostics Mannheim. He plans to continue in those capacities. Prior to joining ERBA Mannheim, Jeffreys served in a variety of positions for several diagnostics companies, including Lumora, Lab21 Healthcare, Invitron, Kronus, and Gen-Probe UK (now Hologic).

Nov 29, 2016

Catherine Ball

Ancestry has appointed Catherine Ball as Chief Scientific Officer. The consumer genomics firm promoted her from VP of Genomics and Bioinformatics, a job she's held since 2011.

As CSO, Ball will lead initiatives to develop new technologies to analyze genetic data along with family relationship data.

Prior to joining Ancestry, Ball held appointments at the Stanford University School of Medicine in the Departments of Genetics and Biochemistry, where she led the Stanford Microarray Database. As part of her research, she contributed to the annotation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome and has built genomic databases for yeast, Escherichia coli, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Ball holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of California, Los Angeles and she was a postdoc at UC-Berkeley.

Nov 23, 2016

Amy Miller

Amy Miller, executive VP of the Personalized Medicine Coalition, will join the Society for Women's Health Research as its new CEO starting Jan. 3, 2017.

SWHR has been advocating for greater inclusion of women in health research for more than 25 years. The organization's efforts were instrumental to the National Institutes of Health issuing guidelines requiring women be included in clinical research; to the passage of the 1993 NIH Revitalization Act, which mandated sex-based analysis in Phase III clinical trials; and to the US Food and Drug Administration putting out guidelines requiring women's participation in early drug efficacy studies.

"We welcome Amy to lead SWHR at a critical crossroads in women’s health research," SWHR Founder Florence Haseltine said in a statement. "While we celebrate the many achievements in women’s health policy advocacy to date, we must continue to press for unlocking the mysteries in sex differences and how men and women are different when it comes to cures, treatments and prevention."

Miller's tenure at PMC has primed her to lead SWHR. At PMC, she worked with stakeholders accross academia, industry, and governement to support policies that would spur devleopment and adoption of diagnostics and peronalized drugs that capitalize on biological differences among individuals. Previously, at the office of the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Miller worked to connect researchers, legislators, patients, and their families. She was also a fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and domestic policy advisor to Senator Jay Rockefeller.

Nov 16, 2016

Marra Francis

Vermillion has appointed Marra Francis as chief medical officer. Francis is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist. She has served as a national speaker and key opinion leader for Myriad Genetics, as national speaker for Cord Blood registries, as an "Ask the Expert" contributor at Parents.com, as a contributing physician to the Mommy MD Guide books and publications, and a medical affairs consultant for Vermillion. Francis has also served as both vice chair and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital.

Nov 16, 2016

Stephen Tang

OraSure Technologies has appointed Stephen Tang as chairman of its board of directors. Tang takes over from Douglas Watson, who served as chairman since March 2003. He has been a board member since April 2011, served as chairman of the compensation committee since May 2014, and is also a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee. Tang has now relinquished his position as chairman of the compensation committee, but will remain as a member of both committees while serving as chairman of the board.

Nov 15, 2016

Michael Dugan

Clinical Genomics has appointed Michael Dugan as its chief medical officer. Dugan previously served as president and CEO of MCDXI Medical Diagnostics, where he led clinical evaluation, strategic development and clinical education efforts for companies bringing diagnostic tests and related products to market. Before that, he was also senior vice president of clinical development and medical affairs at Exact Sciences, medical director at Quest Diagnostics' Nichols Institute, and vice president and laboratory director at Specialty Laboratories.

Nov 11, 2016

David Halverson

Protea Biosciences has appointed David Halverson as its President.

Halverson has served as Protea's VP and Chief Business Officer. Before joining Protea, he worked at Huntingdon Life Sciences in a number of roles, including head of European and US sales.

Nov 11, 2016

Brian Kim

LGC has appointed Brian Kim as managing director of genomics. Kim joins LGC from PerkinElmer, where he led the life sciences division. In that position he managed a global portfolio of various technologies and products ranging from instruments, reagents, service, and software.